The Brazilian alien encounter and Celtic myth post are two tales from different times and locations but with a simular theme,
Please read the top post then read this,
Out shopping yday, in a bookshop that was closing down (as you may or may not know Iam on a mission to collect enough books for a study when I retire)
A new book should of been £8 got for £2.50 world mythology in bite size chunks by a mark Daniels
The top post mentions a Brazilian mans encounter with an alien who shot hom with a lazergun and how the died, the way he died was simular to the way the Irishman died, if the tale true ?
So in the book he mentions the tale the white buffalo woman, from American mythology
Several tribes of the plains tell the myth of the white buffalo woman known as pteskawin.
In the time when food was scarce, two young hunters left their tribe before dawn in search of prey. They wandered far and yet found no animals that they could bring back to feed their people. After a long search they reached the top of a hill and looked our across a prairie. Where they saw something bright coming towards them from the horizon. Wich as it approached the turned out to be pteskawin. A beautiful woman wearing a brilliant white hide.
Understandably taken by the beauty of this unexpected apparation one of the young hunters approached her with amorous intent. His companion could see that she was wakan (or holy) and urged his friend to respect her spirituality. But it was too late as the woman embraced the young man a cloud enveloped them both and disappeared to reveal nothing but bones lying at her feet